Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘TICK, TICK... BOOM! WAS THE MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE FOR ME’
Everything you’re going through, if it’s all fair game for later use in your work, then it has not been in vain
Lin-Manuel Miranda was 21 the first time he saw Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical Tick , Tick…Boom! and he remembers every detail.
The year was 2001, only a few weeks after 9/11. “It was my first time venturing downtown since the terrorist attacks,” Manuel says. “When I experienced that show at the Jane Street Theatre it hit me like a gale force wind.
“This is what the message in the bottle was to me: that pretty girl sitting next to you who is a talented singer and actress? She’s not going to be a singer and actress when she grows up. She is going to get sick of the rejection
